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Dr. Conor Hanly

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Conor Hanly, B.A., LL.B., LL.M. (N.U.I.), LL.M., J.S.D. (Yale)

Conor Hanly graduated from N.U.I., Galway with a B.A. in History and Legal Science in 1988, and with an LL.B. in 1990. In 1994, he completed an LL.M. by research at University College Dublin entitled "Pricing: A Behavioural Approach to Abuses of Market Power", for which he was awarded First Class Honours. From 2003 to 2004, Conor was a Graduate Fellow at the Yale Law School, where he was conferred with a Master of Laws degree, and was awarded the Joseph M. Parker Prize in Legal History and Roman Law for his paper, "The Decline of the Civil Jury in Nineteenth Century England." He was also an editor on the Yale Law and Policy Review. In 2012 he completed his doctorate (J.S.D.) on the criminal jury in Victorian England.

Conor spent five years in a civil litigation environment in the Claims Department of Eagle Star Insurance Company. From 1995 to 2000, he was Lecturer in Law at Waterford Institute of Technology, and was an adviser to the Doras project, an outreach programme for those involved in juvenile prostitution in Waterford City. He joined the faculty at NUI Galway in 2000.

Conor was recently appointed the Director of Internationalization for the Law School, and is a member of the School’s Research Committee. He is class adviser to final year B.A. (Legal Science) students. He is currently external examiner for Carlow Institute of Technology and Waterford Institute of Technology, and has acted in the past as external examiner for Athlone Institute of Technology and Griffith College Dublin.

Research Interests

Conor's main research interests lie in the field of criminal law. He is the author of An Introduction to Irish Criminal Law (3rd ed., 2015), which is a standard work on the subject. He was principal investigator and co-author of Rape and Justice in Ireland (2009), a major study of attrition in rape cases commissioned by the Rape Crisis Network Ireland with part-funding from the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform. He has contributed to two reports from the European Agency for Fundamental Rights dealing with the rights of victims of crime (2016). He also worked with Safe Ireland to help design and implement an empirical study of domestic violence in Ireland, and co-wrote the resulting report (2016).

Conor also has research interests in the field of legal history. He wrote an award-winning paper on the decline of the civil jury in nineteenth-century England (2005), and has delivered several historical papers on different aspects of the jury. Most recently, he published an article in the Dublin University Law Journal on the 1916 Proclamation and jury trial in the Irish Free State (2016). He is currently preparing a paper on the Maamtrasna murders in 1882 for inclusion in a book on unfair trials, to be published in 2018.

Law, Revolution and Sovereignty: Reflections on the Legal Legacy of the 1916 Rising and the Declaration of Independence,
Hanly, C (2016) The 1916 Proclamation and Jury Trial in the Irish Free State. [Conference Paper], Law, Revolution and Sovereignty: Reflections on the Legal Legacy of the 1916 Rising and the Declaration of Independence, NUI Galway , 09-APR-16 - 09-APR-16.
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Conference to Celebrate 20 Years of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Victims Studies,
Hanly, Conor (2017) The Development of Criminal Justice Scholarship, 1997-2017. [Invited Oral Presentation], Conference to Celebrate 20 Years of the Centre for Crime, Justice and Victims Studies, University of Limerick , 20-OCT-17 - 20-OCT-17.
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Law, Revolution and Sovereignty: Reflections on the Legal Legacy of the 1916 Rising and the Declaration of Independence,
Conor Hanly (2016) A conference to consider the legal legacy of the founding documents of the Irish State. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Law, Revolution and Sovereignty: Reflections on the Legal Legacy of the 1916 Rising and the Declaration of Independence, NUI Galway , 09-APR-16 - 10-APR-16.
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Trends in the Irish Penal Complex. Millennium Conference of the Isles: Working with Vulnerable Populations.
Hanly, C. (1999) Trends in the Irish Penal Complex. Millennium Conference of the Isles: Working with Vulnerable Populations. Waterford: Conference Paper [Details]

(1998)

Developments in the Law of Rape. Seminar: Dealing with Rape and Child Abuse.
Hanly, C. (1998) Developments in the Law of Rape. Seminar: Dealing with Rape and Child Abuse. Waterford Institute of Technology Waterford, Ireland: Conference Paper [Details]